We’ve used the 48″ Paige wire fencing on 8 ft long posts spaced every 8 ft for our main chicken yard, which is approx 1/2 acre or so. We also have a small chicken wire on t-bar pen for quarantine/new bird introductions.

Only the occasional fly over…and then pacing on the outside to try to figure out how to get back in….

This year we plan to also use the electrified chicken netting so that we may move the chickens to other areas for weed and pest control, etc.

All of that aside, the chickens do tend to stay close to where we are or where the house is…so for us the fence is more of a predator deterrent than a chicken containment system.